John Heisler Quotes (8 Quotes)

I'm not sure we think that people should just be able to come in and copy and essentially duplicate any sort of a press conference and just throw it up on the Internet. There ought to be some journalism involved here.

In a lot of previous cases, we did things more informally. There wasn't this great concern that the information was inaccurate. It just didn't enter your mind.

We are very familiar with the phone number of our general counsel.

After you've been through that O'Leary incident, everyone approaches it with an entirely different mind-set. The good thing about athletics is most of the stuff is easily verified. But there are an awful lot of facts and figures in their bio, some of which is almost impossible to verify yourself without spending weeks. ... Given the level of scrutiny, we've got to be crazy not to get this right. Nobody's going to cut any corners. If it takes another day, or week, to check something out, then it does. Let's not rush this.

The five places we've had the most conversations about and also had people from those sites wanting to talk to us have been Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Dallas and New Orleans. I think when (athletic director) Kevin White has been talking about sites and years, he was talking philosophically. There are no deals in place yet. We've got some work to do.

It's going to be a year-to-year thing. It's certainly not going to be anything that jeopardizes games in the fall, but some of the questions are where and when the work is going to be done and what's our ability to accommodate fans in the spring.

They have helped us extensively as far as some of the language we use to make it clear what ability you have to use material that you obtain at a game. We wrote it, and we ran it past them just to ask for some advice. It was more a matter of just trying to set the table and figure out how we can work this out.

With these other events, there's a commodity of some sort. We're running a Web site as well, so we would like to drive traffic there. Our feeling is, particularly in terms of a press conference, everybody is welcome to cover it, but if you want to see the full-blown transcription or if you want to watch the whole thing, then our site ought to be the place to find that.